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[Peter Jones]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:55 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:

> 2. Doing a custom partitioning, with 7G free on a drive, asking to use all 
> space remaining for swap gave me 1992 MB swap area and 5G still unused.

We limit swap to 2GB, and round down to the cylinder boundary.  Do you
really need more than 2GB of swap?

(If you're 2GB into swap, will going another 5GB into swap really make
you happier?  I somehow doubt it.)

> 3. I made /dev/md0 out of /dev/sda1 and sdb1, and at the end of install grub 
> was run on both disks:
> 
> grub> root (hd1,0)
> filesystem is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
> grub> install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd1) /boot/grub/stage2 p
> (hd1,0)/boot/grub/grub.conf
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> filesystem is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
> grub> install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p
> (hd0,0)/boot/grub/grub.conf
> Error 16: Inconsistent filesystsem structure
> grub>

I haven't seen this happen with ext3.  Are you able to reproduce it?

-- 
  Peter